Civil rights pioneer Julia Hill steps down at NAACP
theGRIO REPORT - At the age of 90, Julia Hill has stepped down as an executive board member of the Kansas City branch of the NAACP...
Atlanta civil rights leader, businessman Jesse Hill Jr. dead
ATLANTA (AP) - Jesse Hill Jr., a civil rights leader and businessman who later became the first black president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, died Monday. He was 86...
Civil rights leader Lawrence Guyot dies at 73
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawrence Guyot, a civil rights leader who survived jailhouse beatings in the Deep South in the 1960s and went on to encourage generations to get involved, has died. He was 73...
Widow of civil rights activist wants him home
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - The black activist and follower of Martin Luther King Jr. never made it home to Bogue Chitto, Ala. He was declared dead, but his body never was found and little is known about what happened...
Patricia S. Due, civil rights leader, dies at 72
Patricia Stephens Due stayed in jail for 49 days, refusing to pay bail after she was arrested for sitting at a Woolworth lunch counter...
